CVE-2022-3110

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. _rtw_init_xmit_priv in drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c lacks check of the return value of rtw_alloc_hwxmits() and will cause the null pointer dereference.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2022-12-14

Last modified

2025-04-22

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153055
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.19-rc2&id=f94b47c6bde624d6c07f430540876…